Projects

Coming later this spring, the Kinect for Windows SDK is a programming toolkit that will enable researchers and enthusiasts easy access to the capabilities offered by the Microsoft Kinect device connected to computers running Microsoft Windows 7.

Microsoft Tag connects real life with the digital world. Microsoft Tags are small, colorful codes that can be printed, stuck, or displayed just about anywhere. When you snap a Tag with the camera on your internet-enabled phone, additional information or experiences are automatically opened on your phone. There is no fumbling with URLs or texting short codes. Microsoft Tags can make product packages, posters, print-based ads, magazine articles, exhibit signage, billboards, storefronts, business card, or just about anything else, interactive.

Songsmith generates musical accompaniment to match a singer’s voice. Just choose a musical style, sing into your PC’s microphone, and Songsmith will create backing music for you. Then share your songs with your friends and family, post your songs online, or create your own music videos.

The WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a rich visualization environment that functions as a virtual telescope, bringing together imagery from the best ground- and space-based telescopes in the world to enable seamless, guided explorations of the universe.

Crowd wisdom among many topics examined at top AI eventMicrosoft researchers contributed to 20 papers on AI research at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence spanning multiple disciplines, including machine learning, computational sustainability and even the arts.Fri, 24 Jul 2015 16:00:00 GMT

Microsoft Hyperlapse ProMicrosoft Hyperlapse is a new technology that creates smooth and stabilized time lapses from first-person videos. Want to show your friends what you saw on that 12-mile hike you took last weekend or let them experience how it felt to fly down the mountain on your recent ski trip? With Microsoft Hyperlapse, you can time lapse those experiences, distilling them into easily consumable, enjoyable experiences.Fri, 31 Jul 2015 11:39:48 GMT

Sent2VecSent2vec maps a pair of short text strings (e.g., sentences or query-answer pairs) to a pair of feature vectors in a continuous, low-dimensional space where the semantic similarity between the text strings is computed as the cosine similarity between their vectors in that space. sent2vec performs the mapping using the Deep Structured Semantic Model (DSSM) proposed in (Huang et al. 2013), or the DSSM with convolutional-pooling structure (CDSSM) proposed in (Shen et al. 2014; Gao et al. 2014).Tue, 28 Jul 2015 22:38:49 GMT

If-This-Then-That Programs and Descriptions CorpusThis download primarily contains a list of URLs with paired natural language descriptions and code, as well as a separate of those URLs into training, development, and test data. In addition, code is included to help the downloader retrieve those URLs and their contents. This data is released in support of the ACL 2015 paper entitled “Language to Code: Learning Semantic Parsers for If-This-Then-That Recipes” by Chris Quirk, Raymond Mooney, and Michel Galley.Mon, 27 Jul 2015 15:19:16 GMT

HMD Lens for Oculus RiftThis zip file contains CAD files and source code necessary to build and use an improved lens for the Oculus Rift HMD. The source code works with the Unity game engine to correct the lens distortion for the Oculus display. The lens was automatically designed by the LensFactory program developed at Microsoft Research. The optical quality is significantly better than the lenses that come with the Oculus. The lens uses off the shelf lens elements from Edmund Optics.Wed, 01 Jul 2015 19:59:50 GMT